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University Daily Kansan, February 16. 1983
Dahra Bates/KANSAN
A forum for candidates to the Lawrence City Commission last night was sponsored by the League of Women Veterans for the auritorium of the Lawrence City Library. Robert Isaacson, Salina junior, spoke to the gathering of more than 100 people. Seated from left are Bonita Yoder, David Longhurst, Phillip Endacott, Don Brownstein, Mike Amyx and Barbara Maxwell.
Group preparing Magna Carta plans
The committee preparing to bring the Magna Garta to the University of Kansas met yesterday to begin planning details of the visit.
uniform of the committee are Alexandra Mason, special collections librarian at Kenneth Spencer Research Library, and Michael Davis, dean of
professor of history.
The Magna Carta will be displayed in the main gallery of the research library April 3 through April 6.
Committee members include Al Johnson, assistant to the vice-chancellor for academic affairs; Bill Mitchell, special collections librarian at Spen
Mason said the meeting was a brainstorming session in which subcommittees were appointed to work with the physical site of the school and to handle public relations, to arrange special events and to arrange educational programs.
KU Graduate Student Council to discuss TA contract ideas
Members of the Graduate Student Council Friday will meet to decide on conditions of employment for teaching and research assistants to be recommended to the administration, Thomas Berger, executive director of the council, said yesterday.
The new employment contract must provide "financial protection for Kansas University and an attractive offer to bring new students to KU," said George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Woodyard said that the new contract would contain procedures for laying off teaching and research assistants in
case of future reductions in the University's budget.
IT IS URGENT that the council decide on something, because the office of academic affairs will send contracts to new assistants in March, Woodyard said.
At an open meeting Monday, council members will discuss the proposals with Francis Horowitz, dean of the graduate school, and Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Berger said.
Specifically, the "notice of termi nation" issue will be discussed, he said.
EACH MEMBER OF the committee that met yesterday will head a committee to plan details in the five areas.
"Everything has to be done as soon as possible. It's really going to be pretty grand," Mason said.
The committee working on the physical site of the exhibit will discuss ways to deal with long viewing lines and parking, she said.
The public relations committee will act as a liaison with the press and will issue notices of the visit to various persons and groups, including all state high schools, historical societies and other interested groups in the area.
other interested groups in the
The special events group will plan
any lectures, films or concerts that
may be presented with the exhibit.
AL JOHNSON, who is heading the volunteers committee, said he was looking for students to act as hosts and guides to visitors of the exhibit and to work in the souvenir store that comes with the exhibit.
Volunteers would also be needed to load and unload the exhibit, he said.
"It would be a nice opportunity for some students who have an interest in medieval history to participate, along with any others wanting to volunteer," he said.
Anyone interested should call him at the academic affairs office, Johnson said. Volunteers will be contacted about work schedules.
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Candidates discuss downtown
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
Downtown renovation, unemployment and the future growth of Lawrence were the main topics at a forum of the Lawrence City Commission candidates last night.
About 120 people listened to the opinions and concerns of 13 of the 14 candidates who are campaigning for each candidate. Each candidate spoke for five minutes.
candidate space for the meeting. The meeting at the Lawrence Public Library was sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Commissioner Donald Binsn, the only candidate who did not attend, sent his son to speak on his behalf. The older Binsn, the only incumbent seeking re-election, was at last night's regular city commission meeting.
A PRIMARY ELECTION on March 1 will narrow the field of candidates to six, and the general election will be April 5.
April 5. The majority of the candidates said they favored some type of downtown redevelopment, hoped to increase job opportunities for the city and would like to see the city grow.
public money is expected to be involved in financing parts of the project.
to see the city now is working with a Kenner, La., developer on plans to redevelop the downtown area. Some
Mike Amyx, 2612 Redbud Lane, owner of Amyx Barber Shop, said that although the taxpayer should be the most important factor in the commissioners' decision as to whether to accept a downtown or suburban location of public financing would be necessary to pay for the redevelopment.
redevelopment.
Ernest Angino, chairman of the KU department of geology, also said the public needed to be considered if a redevelopment of the downtown area was to be successful.
"THERE IS NO easy solution to the problems facing Lawrence," Angino said. "But we need to keep downtown Lawrence attractive."
Lawyer Larry Cole, 934 W. 21st St., a private office, said that the public should be given a chance to vote on whether redevelopment should take place after the city's developer presented formal plans for the project.
One candidate, Milton Collins, the owner of Uncle Milty's Cafe, 2246 Barker St., said he opposed plans for downtown redevelopment.
"I am against destroying downtown Lawrence," Collins said. "If the people vote not to have redevelopment, then no way."
not board.
Robert Isaacson, Salina junior, the only KU student running, said his main concern if elected would be to initiate an effort to oust City Manager Buford Watson.
Barbara Maxwell, director of guidance at South Junior High School, said she was concerned about the growing number of people who were forced to sleep in the streets of Lawrence because of their poverty.
"The dissatisfaction of the present city manager's job is widespread," Isaacson said.
Unemployment was also addressed by several of the candidates
The other candidates at the forum were Roger Borland, Don Brownstein, Corbet Collins, Phillip Endacott, David Longhurst, Florence Tyler and Bonita Yoder.
"The FUTURE CITY commissioners may very well have to relate to the issue," Maxwell said. "The Salvation Army is giving out what they can to the people, but sooner or later someone is going to have to provide a hot lunch."
Black author tells, writes of troubles
IsBachelor. Went was asked by Commissioner Tom Gleason, a letter last year to resign or face the possibility of being fired. Watson did not resign and Gleason survived a recall election against him.
By ANNE FITZGERALD
Staff Reporter
Before Margaret Walker read to a group of Lawrence High School students visiting the University of Kansas yesterday, she told them she was already writing poetry when she was their age.
Walker will also meet with students from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today in 2032 Wescoe Hall.
Walker read from her work last night in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium. She will speak at noon today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Dread Ave., as part of the University Forum Series.
their age.
And before the students left, she said
she was sure that at least one of them
would be a writer too.
Walker, one of America's foremost contemporary black authors, has been at the University this week as part of the Wren Women's Program program and Black History Month.
WALKER FIRST GAINED national
recognition with her collection of poems, "For My People." She won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1942 for the collection — the first black person to win that award.
She said she spent 15 minutes writing the title poem, "For My People," but said it took longer than that to answer what she wanted for her people.
"I was 22 years old then, and I am an old woman now." Walker said, "but I still want the same things for my people."
people.
She said that writers should not write exclusively for blacks or whites, but should write for all people.
Perhaps her most famous work is "Jubilee," which has been reprinted 43 times in seven languages. Walker based the Civil War novel on her great-grandmother's life, first as a slave, then as a free woman.
WALKER SAID THAT freedom was no more than a state of mind, but that President Reagan's administration threatened the social advances blacks and other minorities had made since the 1960s.
"I think that the Reagan administration is absolutely anti-black," she said, "but it's more against the poor than against blacks."
walker, who lived through the Depression, remembered resistance to government programs to help the poor and the development of a war economy. She said she saw parallels between those days and current conditions.
Black History Month is important for its studies of African history and Afro-Americans' contributions to Western culture, she said.
"SINCE WE ARE still outside the mainstream of American life, without the full benefits of American de-
fense," she said. "We are indebted to advocate Black History Month." she said.
Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English, said that Walker's works showed a people's difficulties and triumphs in overcoming oppression.
"Her voice is a voice which rings with freedom for us all," Schultz said, "but to hear the call of freedom as she rings it in her writings, we must listen very closely."
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